Preventing Malpractice Claims and Strengthening the Doctor-Patient Relationship with Cultural Competence

A 2017 Medscape survey indicated that over half of responding doctors had been sued for malpractice.  The number one reason?  Failure to diagnose a medical condition, given by 31% of respondents.  Nearly half of doctors surveyed who were sued for malpractice spent between eleven and fifty hours in court, meetings with lawyers, or in other …